MPRANDOMWALK(1)

💿 mprandomwalk(1) — the manual page, but make it a vibe ✨

okay bestie, sit down, put your headphones on, because we're talking about mprandomwalk from the mprandomwalk section 1 of the manual. it's giving DJ but the DJ is a random number generator and honestly? iconic. 🎧🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mprandomwalk — play random bits of all queued songs 💅

like. it just plays random little pieces of the stuff you already queued. no skips, no skips-adjacent behaviour, just chaos, curated. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mprandomwalk [maxduration] [host]

two little optional lil guys in brackets, both optional, both slaying. 🫶

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🎵 DESCRIPTION 🎵

okay so here's the tea: mprandomwalk plays random segments of randomly chosen songs in the playlist. that's it. that's the whole bit. it's a shuffle but it's not even loyal to a single song — it grabs a random song, plays a random chunk of it, and then moves on. main character energy for real. 😭🔥

the maxduration argument can control the maximum number of seconds of a song to play at a time. so if you're like "bestie i have 3 seconds of attention span", you can say that, and it will respect you. ⏱️✨

if the hostname is omitted, the MPD_HOST environment variable will be used. no hostname? no problem. she'll just go look it up herself. 💁‍♀️

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright 2010 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> 💜

Licensed under the GNU GPL version 2 or higher. fr fr, that's the license, don't be weird about it.

http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/mpdtoys 🦋

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and that's the whole page bestie, no notes, no cap. this beauty shipped as part of perl v5.36.0 on 2023-02-01 — so like, yeah, it's been out here randomly walking through your queue for a minute. go forth and let the playlist be ungovernable. 🎀💖🌈